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Re: old pcbnew file format in bitmap2component tool

 

Dick,

On OS X, bitmap2component is also one of the modules that starts minimized (does not show the main window) when you click on the icon in kicad, maybe because there is no kiface?

Just a thought,
Jean-Paul
AC9GH

On Aug 19, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 08/19/2014 05:00 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>> While working on the bitmap2component tool to add support for
>> placing bitmaps onto the planned Underlay 1/2 layers I noticed
>> that the deprecated *.emp export format is still supported by
>> the tool. If there are no objections I'll remove that option
>> as part of my work on this feature. Given the way KiCad and
>> pcbnew in particular has worked for almost a year and the more
>> recent introduction of more layers, I don't see a need to
>> maintain the ability to import images to the older format.
> 
> 
> No reason to remain emp-athic to that format.
> 
> 
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